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WIDE ANGLE HAS PROVIDED MEDIA ARTS EDUCATION TO OVER 8,295 YOUTH IN BALTIMORE.

MISSION

Through media arts education, Wide Angle Youth Media collaborates with and amplifies the voices of Baltimore youth to engage audiences across social divides. Our programs inspire creativity and instill confidence in young people, supporting them to navigate school, career, and life. Since 2000, Wide Angle Youth Media has worked with over 8,295 youth from across Baltimore City who have produced thousands of media projects about their lives and communities.

Wide Angle Youth Media is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.

Tax ID #52-2276602
Maryland Charity Campaign #522276602

 

VISION

We envision that a new generation of media makers, particularly youth from historically minoritized and marginalized communities, will flourish through creative expression and equitable access to professional resources and skill-building opportunities. All levels of the Baltimore-area media arts and communications fields will reflect the full spectrum of residents.

VALUES

  • Sustainability: Promote work/life balance and maintain capacity without overworking staff, so that everyone can do their best work in service of the mission.

  • Relationship-building: Foster a sense of belonging, value the whole self. Honesty and storytelling are part of the “connective tissue” that builds and sustains healthy relationships for all stakeholders and promotes brave spaces at WAYM.

  • Life-long Learning: Prioritize education, career, creativity, and professional development opportunities of students, staff and board.

  • Authenticity: Act with intentionality and integrity across the organization as well as with current/potential partners and funders.

  • Compassionate Accountability: Staff, students, and board fulfill their roles and responsibilities with empathy and understanding at all levels. Implement equitable accountability to ourselves, one another, and the mission through open communication, collaboration, and autonomy.

OUR COMMITMENTS

At Wide Angle Youth Media, we dream of a future where the people in front of and behind the camera reflect our city and society. We believe that our stories and media should reflect a full spectrum of voices, acknowledge our complex history, and move beyond whitewashed plotlines to depict every individual with nuance, care, respect, humility, and humanity.

 
 

IMPACT REPORTS

Click on the links below to view and/or download copies of Wide Angle Youth Media’s impact reports.  If you would like any additional information for past years, please contact info@wideanglemedia.org.

 

TACTICAL ROADMAP

The Tactical Roadmap will guide operations during a 3 year period of transition (1/1/2024 - 12/31/2026), as Wide Angle moves its operations to Wide Angle’s Studios at the Service Center in 2024. To develop this plan, staff met over three 1-2 day retreats (fall 2022 - spring 2023), to create a new Vision statement, refine organization values, and build out plans to operationalize those values. These planning sessions provided the foundation for the Tactical Roadmap. Throughout the Roadmap development process, staff and board set priorities around achieving the intended impact of goal advancement; identified necessary organizational capacity and financial resources; and established the benchmarks that will make it possible to define success.

 

FINANCIAL FACTS

Click on the links below to view and/or download copies of Wide Angle Youth Media’s financial statements. 

If you would like any additional financial information for past years, please contact info@wideanglemedia.org